Researchers on Wednesday reported the largest-ever one-year decline in the U.S. cancer death rate, a drop they credited to advances in lung-tumor treatments. The overall cancer death rate has been falling about 1.5 percent a year since 1991. It fell 2.2 percent ...

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U.S. government-led research found no strong evidence linking baby powder with ovarian cancer in the largest analysis to look at the question. The findings were called “overall reassuring” in an editorial published Tuesday with the study in the Journal of ...

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Eddie Money, who left behind a career as a New York police officer to become one of the top-selling rock stars of the 1970s and ’80s, with hits like “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight,” has died. ...

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Eddie Money, who left behind a career as a New York police officer to become one of the top-selling rock stars of the 1970s and ’80s, with hits like “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight,” has died. ...

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U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton’s Aug. 5 ruling brings the amount Pfizer must pay Margaret Fraser over her claims the hormone-replacement medicine caused her cancer to $5.76 million.

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McDonald’s, the world’s biggest restaurant company, and other dining chains were sued Wednesday in state court in Hartford, Conn., by the Washington-based Cancer Project on behalf of two Connecticut residents, seeks class-action, or group, status on behalf of people who bought or ate the grilled chicken from October 2006 to this month.

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A series of lawsuits over dozens of brain tumors in northern Missouri may be moving to federal court. Lawyers for the multiple defendants in the lawsuit have asked to move the lawsuits, originally filed in Clinton and DeKalb counties, to ...

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A store had the right to fire an employee who couldn’t work because she had cancer, the 8th U.S. Court of Appeals said Wednesday. Floyce Peyton worked as the manager of Fred’s Stores in Heber Springs, Ark., for two days ...

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Ginsburg returns after cancer surgery U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her first public appearance since her Feb. 5 cancer surgery, returning to her role as one of the court’s most active questioners during a pair of hourlong ...

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